"Every single choice is a chance to turn toward the life you really want."

Day 27 of the 31 day journalling challenge

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"Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time." — Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

I had the pleasure of interviewing Martha Beck last year. (You can read the whole interview here) Martha is Oprah’s life coach (imagine that!) and I loved what she said about creating change. As you know, I do love a leap but actually I know that it’s taking the baby steps that creates good sustainable progress.

Here what Martha says:

“Psychologists who study change tell us that paradoxically, positive transformation happens more quickly when we do it in small steps than heroic leaps.

Every day you make thousands of tiny decisions about what to do with your time. Every single choice is a chance to turn toward the life you really want.

Imagine you’re flying a plane on a 10,000-mile journey. If you change course by one degree to the right every half an hour or so you’ll never notice a drastic change, but you’ll end up in a completely different place than if you maintained your initial trajectory. I advise people to steer their lives with a series of one-degree turns.”

Here’s the journalling prompt.

What tiny, every day decisions have you made that have made a big impact on your life?